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[–] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I love that nothing actually uses the drivers

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They seriously banned "microslop" on the official Discord?

[–] wings@lemmy.rimfaxe.net 64 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Literally everything you do is going to spike CPU usage it's called having an efficient CPU that can idle for microseconds.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Glad I'll never have to experience that

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 99 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure notepad.exe is actually below the kernel. Its load bearing.

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I can confirm it's not. One cool feature Windows does have is Windows sandbox, which lets you instantly start a blank Windows VM with no persistence. I was playing around with it yesterday and discovered it doesn't include notepad in the guest OS!

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 34 points 3 days ago

I'll bet the hypervisor for that VM is notepad based /j

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

still kinda pissed they got rid of edit.com after win7....

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

They brought it back (well, a modern version) in Win 11.

It's available for Linux too!

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/edit/

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 5 points 3 days ago

Recently revived my old gaming PC, decided to put Bazzite on it. Was a bit surprised to see that sudoedit had a menubar and everything, used to it being vim or something. Got even more surprised when I found out it was made by fucking Microsoft. Yuck.

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

is notepad.exe still around? I was sure they had replaced it with a new Microsoft Store app with copilot and ads.

[–] OliMoli2137@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago

yes, and i think you can open it with win+r notepad

[–] bold_omi@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago

Yes, but they made it dumber.

[–] DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

Notepad++ is in my opinion. It just should be at the side in mid air supporting a big lever under cmd

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And ya'll bitch about systemd 🫤

[–] softwarist@programming.dev -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

To be fair, systemd is like the Windows 11 of Linux software.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

You are thinking of snap

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 7 points 2 days ago

Hardly. It does what it needs to then a bit too much more but in my experience all the pieces at least fit together and I've never had any instability from systemd.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

we're gonna put copilot in EVERYTHING! it'll be great

bill arrives for the compute

we're gonna take copilot out of EVERYTHING it'll be uh

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lol. Work is currrently trying to cram Copilot into critical business processes despite it being incapable of doing very basic things.

However, it has shed light on the fact that we have people in management who dont understand the fundamentals of how our business operates. Not that anything will be done about it.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

have they tried replacing management with copilot?

I mean with some of the managers I hear about, it couldn't be worse than the current situation....

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've always said that most middle management can be replaced by LLMs. And not even the more expensive models. Gemini flash would probably do about as good of a job as most middle managers.

Of course an LLM couldn't do the job of a really good middle manager. But most middle management is basically doing basically what LLMs do, and hallucinate and get things wrong just as often.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

We taught the AI to speak like a middle manager and thought that meant the AI was sentient, instead of realizing that the middle managers aren't

[–] Sina@beehaw.org 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wait, is the current start menu thing really edge webview??

[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

It isnt, but it is a react native component, so it is running a JavaScript runtime

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's horrifying, but I can’t look away…

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

File explorer should be way bigger.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 28 points 3 days ago

And with spiderwebs of connecting lines tying it to pretty much every block both above and below it.

[–] fractal618@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can you make the copilot icon 7 times bigger and have it pulsate?

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Like a giant throbbing ...artery

[–] mHtt@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

missing level 0 = electricity.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

That tree reads like “build an apple orchard to discover gravity”.

[–] kazerniel@quokk.au 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Not 100% sure, but I think civilization 6

[–] kazerniel@quokk.au 4 points 3 days ago
[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Goog's image search agrees with you: "The image shows a section of the Atomic Era technology tree from Sid Meier's Civilization VI". One thing AI is good for.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Not sure what the Apple logo is doing there, though Macs did have Boot Camp until the Apple Silicon models.

[–] chraebsli@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

*1400 patches in one month

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

About cmd: if you trace back things like right-click > print, it's usually a switcheroo between 7 registry keys and 5 directories that ends in some.dll /arg.

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, Context Menus just work like that.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago

I miss taskmanager. Should be right on top win32

I love these type of memes XD

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 days ago

Part 2: ReactOS stack